The systems underlying our elections process are more important than ever this year, and the bad guys know it too. FBI director James Comey said at a House Judiciary Committee hearing today that “bad actors have been poking around” voter registration systems lately. Read More | Continue reading
Rock star Bruce Springsteen is currently live streaming a conversation he’s having with Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of internet software and services, to commemorate Springsteen’s new book Born to Run. But the live video is available on Facebook — specifically on Spri … | Continue reading
HBO has renewed its new stoner comedy High Maintenance for a second season. The show, which began as a web series on Vimeo, just started its six-episode first season two weeks ago.High Maintenance is renewed for a second season on @HBO. #HMonHBO pic.twitter.com/3VGvsDLGtV— High M … | Continue reading
Our blog articles feature the latest ideas and thinking from our Action and Research Centre and Fellowship staff and guest bloggers. You are welcome to contribute and comment. | Continue reading
Although arrival details still aren't available, it seems as though you'll be able to pre-order the LG V20 as early as this Sunday. | Continue reading
Training camps around the NBA are in full swing and there's plenty of news from coast to coast. Pat Riley says Chris Bosh is done in Miami. Kevin Durant and the Warriors are working through the process in Oakland. And the King and his crew in Cleveland are preparing to defend the … | Continue reading
Latin America just might be the most over-looked emerging market on the planet. The venture dollars in Latin America can’t hold a candle to India or China (compare China’s $11.8B in new VC funds for the first half of 2016, down 14% according the WSJ, to Latin America’s $218M), an … | Continue reading
Reports today indicate that Spotify is in ‘advanced’ talks to buy indie-favorite SoundCloud. If true, the ramifications of the acquisition will have a broad reach, far-extending the userbase of either platform. After having (more than) doubled up Apple and its 17 million paid use … | Continue reading
Google Translate can now interpret Chinese to English with near human-level accuracy through the Google Neural Machine Translation system. | Continue reading
GUEST: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” to paraphrase a famous bard. There is a huge ongoing boom in messaging-based applications coming to market, generically called “bots.” Regular readers of technology sections are no doubt also aware that, by most accounts, th … | Continue reading
Television networks have found that rebooting older classics is a winning bet. There’s Hawaii 5-0 on CBS, while ABC has just begun to air MacGyver. Earlier this week, CBS announced that it’s bringing back S.W.A.T. while Fox is putting together a remake of Behind Enemy Lines. The … | Continue reading
Now that BlackBerry officially isn't making phones anymore, let's look back at a simpler time: the early 2000s, when BlackBerry ruled and Apple drooled. (The iPhone didn't exist yet, so BlackBerry was killing the mobile game.)When the BlackBerry 850 was released in 1999, the cool … | Continue reading
Microsoft is fast taking advantage of a key new feature in Apple's iOS 10 update. Today the company released a new version of Skype for iPhone and iPad, and deeper Siri integration is its biggest new addition. You can now ask Siri to place a Skype call to any of your contacts wit … | Continue reading
Today we will learn how to build forms in Phoenix that use our schema information to dynamically show the proper input fields with validations, errors and so on. We aim to support the following API in our templates: Each generated input will have the proper markup and classe … | Continue reading
A source control system is an essential tool if you're writing software, even for your own side projects. Although I've used many version control software over the past 20+ years of development, I've only been using git for the past 3 or 4 years. However it's quickly become my ve … | Continue reading
Sleep gadgets are having a moment. So far this year we’ve talked about connected beds, connected pillows, sleep trackers, and alarm clocks to help us optimize sleep time. We’re all apparently really struggling with this natural instinct. The Kello is a new sleep-oriented connecte … | Continue reading
Wondering how the Apple Watch Series 2 compares with some of the best wearables out there? Join us as we compare the new Apple Watch with the best of the best. | Continue reading
Facebook announced its free Analytics for Apps tool earlier this year as a way to help developers grow the customer base, and now the company is adding several new features for deeper insights. The biggest change is that Analytics for Apps can now track cross platform metrics all … | Continue reading
If only Nissan had released the ProPilot self-driving chair in time for the release of the new iPhone — waiting in line for the device would've been easy and maybe even fun.The prototype chair can move itself and stop before it collides with an obstacle. It was developed by the J … | Continue reading
If you felt burned because you purchased developer Hello Games’ No Man Sky space sim based on its trailers and promotional material, someone is fighting on your behalf. The United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Authority is investigating Hello Games for potentially deceiving cus … | Continue reading
Saturday Night Live has announced that Alec Baldwin will don the Trump makeup and wig left behind by former cast member and current SNL announcer Darrell Hammond. Before Hammond, the role was played by Taran Killam.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Baldwin will appear in sever … | Continue reading
The United Nations will launch its first-ever space mission aboard Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser spaceplane in 2021. The news was announced yesterday at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico."The possibilities are endless."The goal of the miss … | Continue reading
First it was the smartphones, now it's the washing machines.In the same month that Samsung admitted it knows of at least 35 instances of Note7 batteries exploding or catching fire amid a nationwide recall in the U.S., the company is also having to deal with reports that some of i … | Continue reading
Content marketers are being rewarded for staying the course according to new research released in the USA last night. That’s especially good news for Australian marketers who tend to have skipped the trial and error phase experienced by early adopters. While the annual report fro … | Continue reading
There has been a lot of talk about Facebook’s video view figures this week at AdWeek New York. It seems everyone has an opinion on the misreporting of video views, and how to fix the problem from an analytical perspective. But in an interview ahead of his panel — “Are You Getting … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know just how much advanced technology goes into operating the social media giant that is Facebook.He announced on Wednesday that he'll begin to share photos on his Facebook profile about some of the new technologies Facebook is building, starting wit … | Continue reading
Today a new nonprofit organization called the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society announced its establishment. Participants include Amazon, Google (and Google’s DeepMind) Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft. Those companies will put up money and research … | Continue reading
Spotify is reportedly in advanced talks to purchase SoundCloud, according to a report from the Financial Times. The move would give Spotify a larger library of content — SoundCloud has over 125 million songs — and remove a competitor from the streaming music landscape after Soun … | Continue reading
Probably not the kind of thing Samsung was hoping it would be dealing with in the wake of a massive Galaxy Note 7 recall, but here we are. And here’s the statement from the company’s media relations wing:It is important to note that Samsung customers have completed hundreds of mi … | Continue reading
Google Allo has already surpassed 5 million installs from the Google Play Store, but will it see the same trajectory as Google Duo? | Continue reading
According to sources cited by Financial Times, SoundCloud, the beloved independent darling of the music world, is in acquisition talks with Spotify. This month, Spotify hit a huge milestone of 40 million paying customers, a rather large jump from next-best Apple, with its 17 mill … | Continue reading
Spotify is reportedly holding advanced talks with SoundCloud about a possible acquisition. The exact reason remains unknown, but one possibility is an effort by Spotify to remain one step ahead of Apple Music, which has risen in popularity since its launch out of beta earlier thi … | Continue reading
The world’s largest technology companies hold the keys to some of the largest databases on our planet. Much like goods and coins before it, data is becoming an important currency for the modern world. The data’s value is rooted in its applications to artificial intelligence. Whom … | Continue reading
Papa John’s has a catchy motto: “Better Ingredients. Better Pizza.” This analogy works in technology, as well. As better ingredient technologies arrive on the scene, they open the door for new, iconic companies to be formed that meet our needs in fundamentally better ways. Read M … | Continue reading
Facebook couldn’t fit all developers for its F8 conference into San Francisco’s Fort Mason any more, so F8 will take place at San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center on April 18th and 19th, 2017.Registration hasn’t started yet but will follow the same rules as last year, which you’l … | Continue reading
Facebook’s F8 conference is the company’s biggest event each year. While its 2017 conference may still be many months away, the company just announced the dates: April 18 and 19. That’s just about the same timing as usual, but Facebook is moving to a different venue. Whereas the … | Continue reading
Five of the world’s largest technology companies have come together to shed light on the ongoing development of artificial intelligence. The entities involved are Facebook, Google and its DeepMind subsidiary, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM, and the group's new nonprofit organization … | Continue reading
Facebook is extending its Analytics for Apps tool in an effort to allow businesses to better understand customers. The social networking company is releasing in beta the support for web measurement and cross-platform metrics. With this, developers will be able to glean insights a … | Continue reading
Facebook has announced the dates and location for its next developer conference.F8, the company's annual developer conference, will kickoff April 18, 2017 in San Jose, the social network announced Wednesday. SEE ALSO: How Facebook's last year shows dominance in mobile advertising … | Continue reading
Slack, the workplace productivity chat tool that lets you quietly discuss the merits of strawberry / frosted vs. brown-sugar / unfrosted PopTarts with a colleague for up to six hours at a time without anyone else noticing that you're being totally useless, is an acronym. The lett … | Continue reading
Twitter will now let any of its users create a Moment.Moments, best known as the feature you have to swipe past to see your notifications, are collections of tweets that generally focus on a single subject. It may be people tweeting reactions to a baseball game, news updates on a … | Continue reading
Google today announced an expansion of its home delivery shopping service Google Express, which is now available across a large part of the East Coast. The service lets online shoppers order consumer products like electronics, clothing, health and beauty items, home décor, and ev … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: When Jessie Humani made its debut in April, it was a young white woman with straight reddish-brown hair in a tank top and pair of sunglasses. About a month ago she became a racially ambiguous young woman with hoop earrings, curly hair, and a nose ring. I see and experi … | Continue reading
Denegri Bessai Studio architects recently have designed Hepbourne Street House, a family home located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. | Continue reading
West Leederville House is a 1903 workers cottage located in Perth, Australia, and contemporary redesigned by Studio Atelier. | Continue reading
Levine House is a summer house for a casual lifestyle designed by CCS Architecture in Water Mill, New York. | Continue reading
Munro House is a house designed by Wanda Ely Architect for a young family from Toronto, Canada. Built for a couple who love to cook and ... | Continue reading
It’s called Two Apartment House, and it is the new home of Etica Studio designer Carla Karsakis and her husband Ben, an urban designer | Continue reading